Completion Fluids and Additives

The heavy hitter in heavy brines, now with zinc-free and formate-free options

Since its inception, TETRA has delivered innovation and technological leadership in completion fluids that address emerging customer needs. The TETRA CS Neptune® fluids family of heavy brines leads the oil and gas industry once again as the only cost-effective zinc-free and formate-free completion/drill-in fluids.

TETRA is the only oilfield service provider to manufacture our own calcium chloride and heavy brines, ensuring consistent quality and security of supply for our customers.

Zinc Free Formate Free System

TETRA CS Neptune® fluids, are the clear solution to the oil and gas industry’s quest for an environmentally friendly, cost-effective alternative to zinc brines and cesium formate while enabling operators to safely complete their wells.

Clear Brine Fluids – Halide

Calcium fluids minimize formation damage caused by solid invasion, and shale dispersion. TETRA calcium halide brines are used as completion and packer fluids and in the formulation of our PayZone™ fluids.

Clear Brine Fluids – Formate

When your data suggests that extraordinary conditions may exist in a well or producing zone, TETRA will specially formulate a completion fluid to address individual formation properties that help maximize well productivity.

Dry Salts

TETRA provides a full range of brines to help operators get the most from every well.

Fluid Loss Control and Bridging Agents

Our fluid loss control technologies are designed to help completion engineers address the industry’s most pervasive types of fluid loss. We recommend our specially manufactured microfibers, and acid soluble mineral fibers that form a strong, dense filter cake, for bridging and plugging voids and fractures.

Breaker Technology

TETRA patented breaker products are formulated to remove the polymeric binding agents, and release the bridging materials either as discrete particles or degraded material. We customize break times to facilitate the removal of both the binding and bridging agents if necessary.

Corrosion Control

From corrosion inhibitors for the full range of brine fluids to antimicrobial biocide solutions to solutions that eliminate oxygen, TETRA offers a full range of products that control corrosion in clear brine fluids in virtually every operating environment.

Formation Protection

Our PayZone formation protection product line of additives enables you to minimize, and in some instances reverse, formation damage. These additives include emulsion preventers, scale inhibitors, clay stabilizers, and lubricants.

From common to custom, TETRA provides fluids designed to be less corrosive and more formation friendly, resulting in greater well productivity.

Iron Control

TETRA engineered MatchWell solutions carefully match fluids with any unique conditions found, and then protects the integrity of these fluids throughout their lifecycle. By controlling and monitoring the chemistry of our products, from manufacturing to the wellbore, we are able to provide fluids designed to be less corrosive, more formation friendly, and which may increase well productivity.

Oil Control

TETRA O-Lok C™ treatment provides operators with a low cost, onsite solution to reduce oil and grease levels. This treatment allows for the conditioning and reclamation of sodium bromide completion brine without contamination. It also allows calcium chloride brine to be treated to a level that meets the oil and grease requirements for discharge.

Rheological and Filtrate Control

TETRA provides a full range of rheological and filtrate control agents to minimize losses to the formation, to separate fluids and prevent comingling, and to suspend and transport solids. These products include a broad range of viscosifiers and polymers.